Fun Facts- The Hub N Me Edition

Tessie did fun facts today, and I am going to follow suit. These, however, are fun facts about Hub and me.

• I met my husband on the school bus when I was in 7th grade. I hated him, for he was loud and obnoxious. (He still is today) He had this “nice guy” reputation in high school and semi-dated my friend Lee. I sat with him on the bus a few times and talked to him about my then-boyfriend; a good friend of his. The summer after 10th grade he asked my friend Melissa about me, and called me one day in July to go to Six Flags with a bunch of people. We have been together ever since. I was 15 years old.• That same summer, before we were “officially” together, I went to VA beach with my friend Staci. I met a boy there and made out with him for the entire week. I told Hub about it, reluctantly, because I didn’t want it hanging over us. He never let on that he was upset (but will tell anyone now that he was crushed).• Our relationship was made official during a weekend party at Melissa’s dad’s house where he had ordered “Woodstock 1994” on pay per view. Hub drove up there on Saturday afternoon and had to leave Sunday morning by 5AM for work. He didn’t actually “ask me out” until we were on the phone the following Monday. • My mother was not thrilled about our relationship, since he was 18 and I was 15 (nearly 16).• We went back to school, for his senior and my junior year.• I spent a lot of time skipping classes that year, because he had late arrival and early release privileges. I actually dropped morning and afternoon classes and never signed in to the new ones and nobody caught on. • We both did theatre while we were there, and Hub climbed up to the catwalks and spray painted “Ed loves Sara” on the wall. As of 2 years ago, when my youngest brother was there, it was still on the wall. • When my class held elections for Senior Class President, Hub and I lowered my friend Jer down from the rafters of the stage and blasted Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra (heard in 2001 a space Odyssey) through the aud. Up until that point everyone thought Jer was a no show and had dropped out of the election. He won the election, and though we all had a good talking to from the principal, we didn’t really get in any trouble.• Hub graduated and I went back for senior year, and had probably the best year of my life (at that point anyway). All of the fun did not pay off though, and I was “let go” from our show choir, and ended up failing my last semester Government class. That being said, I did not graduate with my class in June, but rather after summer school in August. I never “walked across the stage” and to this day, my mother insists that I did not graduate. I have a diploma to prove that I did, in fact, graduate high school in 1996.• That wasn’t really about our relationship, but was kind of a lead in.• This is back tracking a bit……At my senior prom, my friend Ben, whom I’d spent a lot of time with that year (sans Hub), kissed me. Hub was furious.• The day summer school let out, Hub and I left on a trip to Cedar Point. I had about 10 days before college started. When I cam home, my parents had completely locked me out of the house because they didn’t agree to me spending time in a hotel room, out of state with my boyfriend. This was when I made the decision to leave my parent’s house.• It took a year of working 3 jobs in addition to going to school, but Hub and I moved in to our first apartment, a cute one bedroom basement apartment, on my 19th birthday. We are still paying off the credit card debt, now rolled in to our mortgage, but it was probably the most liberating and best thing I ever did for myself.• 2 months after we moved in together, I had my wisdom teeth removed and Hub needed to take care of me. I’m surprised that he didn’t go running for the hills.• The first piece of furniture we ever bought, a kitchen table and 2 chairs, is the same kitchen table we use today.• One of my best memories of our apartment is coming home from a very long day to a warm bath and soft music playing. Once I was in the tub, Hub brought me a piece of home made chocolate pie. • In 1999 we moved in to our current house, then owned by Hub’s dad. He was charging us half of what we paid for our tiny apartment, and we had the whole front and upstairs of the house. This afforded us the opportunity to stop working as much, concentrate on school, and have a little bit of fun.• In June 2000, I started at my current employer, and soon after, Hub and I got our 1st cat Sebastian—who we still refer to as our 1st born.

• Hub proposed to me at Cedar Point, where we had vacationed every year since 1996, on August 14, 2000.• We were married 9/14/02 and had the best day of our lives. We threw a kick-ass reception!

• (You guys know the rest)• I was pregnant by April 2003 and we had our first baby, a boy, January 7, 2004.• By November 2004 we were expecting our second, a girl, who was born August 18, 2005.• We are currently expecting our third, another girl, on August 6, 2008

August is going to be a big month for you! I love wedding pictures. you look so beautiful! I always wish I had another excuse to wear a big fancy dress since I don’t normally like to dress up. As for the debt – I’m all for spending carefully but sometimes you just have to do it. We did much the same thing in college and it was worth every penny in interest

This was fun to read. I dated my husband in high school too, so I see some similarities. And I feel like I know you better now. Fun!I love the photo of your wedding. I wish I could see your dress closer up. It’s beautiful. It reminds me a lot of my own wedding dress.

This was so fun! I always pictured you in my mind as a blond (no idea why), so it was nice to see a pic of you.I LOVE IT when people who are married were dating in high school. LOVE IT.Is Sebastian in a bag? Silly cat!

Tessie–I thought you were older than me. I don’t know why.Shauna- Sabbie loves bags–LOVES them. And annoyingly licking anything that is plastic all night long.Swistle- Now that I’m feeling pretty good, Hub and I have already discussed #4. it is a sickness.Misty- No, you are a baby. I will be 30, GULP, 30 this year. And also, now, the thought of food in the bath tub makes me sick.